Meta ends fact-checking program, introduces Community Notes

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  • Source: SAN
  • 04/07/2025
Meta’s fact-checking program will officially end Monday, April 7, affecting all of its platforms in the United States including Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

Joe Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, posted the announcement to social media Friday, writing, “That means no new fact checks and no fact-checkers. We announced in January we’d be winding down the program & removing penalties.”

Why the change?

In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg cited concerns about political bias when announcing the program’s end.

The social media giant faced criticism over the changes. Kaplan responded, “When we launched our independent fact-checking program in 2016, we were very clear that we didn’t want to be the arbiters of truth,” he said. “That’s not the way things played out, especially in the United States.”

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